The Hope

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#340432 Sun, 18 Mar 07 08:12 AM

Hi.

Just a thought. What if the author put "the" before "hope"? Does that create a nuance?

Roseann, a stay-at-home mom, and Joe, a public school custodian in West Babylon, New York, had longed for a second child after their son Anthony was born. But they had almost given up hope after two years of trying to get pregnant and a devastating miscarriage. "When we first found out I was pregnant, we didn't want to get too excited because so many things can go wrong with triplets," Roseann explains.

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#340437 Sun, 18 Mar 07 08:21 AM

It wouldn't be correct. You can say the hope of something (for example, the hope of having a baby) but this would be awkward in this sentece because there is an 'of' in the following clause (two years of trying). This sentence uses hope in a broader sense, where the context makes it clear that what they hope for is a child.